U.S. and Canada

On the picket line

Tesla workers protest inside Calif. plant After Tesla workers, who build zero-emission electric cars, rallied outside the Fremont, Calif., factory…

November 6, 2017

New York City supermarket protest: ‘Bring back WIC!’

Neighborhood activists rallied outside one of three Gristedes supermarkets located in the Chelsea area of Manhattan on Oct. 28. They…

November 6, 2017

How can labor fight back?

AFL-CIO convention From Oct. 22 to Oct. 25 more than 1,200 delegates to the AFL-CIO’s quadrennial convention met in St.…

November 4, 2017

‘Free Mumia’ fight continues

A pair of forums titled “The Fight to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues” were held in San Francisco and Oakland on…

November 4, 2017

Imprisoned PA activist: ‘time to speak’ on water crisis

On Sept. 19, 21, 24 and 27, prisoners at the State Correctional Institution—Frackville experienced four incidents with respect to the…

November 4, 2017

American Airlines in the hot seat over ‘racial insensitivity’

Tamika Mallory, Black activist, organizer and co-chair of the Jan. 21 Women’s March on Washington, D.C., was removed from an…

November 3, 2017

Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks on mass shootings

Transcribed from Oct. 2 broadcast from Prison Radio. The sounds of gunfire crackle through the night air, but few seem…

November 3, 2017

Texans players take knee against racist owner

Before week eight of the National Football League’s 2017 season, no member of the Houston Texans team had taken a…

November 2, 2017

Workers protest in Times Square to support Spectrum strike

Some 1,800 workers of Spectrum, a part of Charter Communications that provides telephone, TV and internet services to customers in…

November 1, 2017

United against capitalism: Detroiters speak truth to power

A people’s assembly in Detroit on Oct. 26 brought together a broad array of community organizations and activists united in…

October 31, 2017